Outside the burned home Tuesday afternoon, Carrie Duell said her son, Derek, "was awakened by firemen pounding on his door. He heard the smoke alarm, it kept going off, but he thought it was just a malfunction."

The family still isn't sure who called 911 to report the fire. When Ashley Hazelton got home at about 12:20 p.m., police were on the scene, but firefighters hadn't arrived yet. She texted her father, who was in Corinth at the time working on his mother's garden, and called her mother, who was at her job as a lunch manager at South Glens Falls High School.

"I saw fire coming out of the porch and living room," Ashley Hazelton said. "It's (the porch) not there anymore."

The entire north side of the structure and the interior are completely gutted and charred.

Nick Quinn, third assistant fire chief with the South Glens Falls Fire Department, said the fire appears to have originated on the porch. The porch was on the north side of the house, but it is now completely gone.

The exact cause of the fire is still unknown; investigators are continuing their work.

Firefighters were hampered by a stiff breeze.

"There was a pretty good wind," Quinn said. "It took a lot of manpower, time and water."

There were no sprinklers inside the house, but there was a smoke alarm.

The family lost all of its possessions. However, the community is already responding. Tuesday afternoon, Duell had a gift certificate in hand from high school students for dinner tonight. She also said that the family will have a place to stay.

"There's plenty of people who have offered help," she said.

Six local fire departments responded including South Glens Falls, West Glens Falls, Glens Falls, Hudson Falls, Gansevoort and South Queensbury. About 100 firefighters battled the blaze. As of late Tuesday afternoon, firefighters were still hosing down the inside of the house and applying a foam material to prevent the fire from reigniting.